Finance Monthly - Deal Maker Awards 2024

DR. MIRKO WARSCHUN Senior Partner & Managing Director KEARNEY Mirko Warschun is a Senior Partner & Managing Director who centers his client leadership around consumer-facing sectors in packaged goods, retail, mobility, and services. During his 25 years in consulting, he led several practices and initiatives, including Kearney’s European Consumer, Retail & Luxury Practice, and serves on the firm’s European leadership board. Additionally, Mirko supported 50+ transactions and has an excellent track record in buy and sell side assignments. His proven expertise lies particularly in the support of cross-border transactions of private equity houses as well as strategic investors and international groups – often followed by transformational post-acquisition value creation programs. Mirko enjoys particularly when he can work on exciting, challenging deals like a recent distressed M&A mandate: Selling SportScheck, Germany’s leading omnichannel sports retailer, to the Italian retailer Cisalfa Sport during regular insolvency proceedings. Throughout the transaction, Mirko and his team advised SportScheck and the insolvency administrator on the management of the international investor process from the initial approach up to the closing. Kearney’s extensive transaction and retail expertise, combined with the firm’s access to international strategic and financial investors was a vital part of the successful completion of the transaction in a challenging distressed M&A situation. DEAL OF THE YEAR DISTRESSED M&A – KEARNEY SUCCESSFULLY SUPPORTED THE SALE OF SPORTSCHECK TO CISALFA SPORT DURING REGULAR INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS GERMANY 50 Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2024.

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